Misha Glouberman

Coming out of the planning meeting for the all-kid version of the Trampoline Hall Lectures this Sunday in Toronto, and, guys, OMG!

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(this is an experiment: Just re-posting my twitter stuff here, seeing what happens)

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Stop Pretending Toronto is More Than It Is False claims of excellence exacerbate mediocrity, and make me feel sad inside.

(My longer thoughts on cities, ambition, agency, excellence, are here: mishaglouberman.substack.com/p/stop-prete... )

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The closest thing to a "cool job" here is probably a high-profile job in Canadian media, and those jobs are a little embarrassing to everyone involved, which sort of evens out the status game

02.12.2024 03:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

In Toronto, there are literally no cool jobs, so we don't have this problem that exists in NYC

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(I wonder if something similar happens in SF with VC/startup culture. In other cities, being an entrepreneur requires agency & leadership. In SF, it feels like it's one more pre-fab option for smart, status-hungry kids - a thing to apply to, like law school or a job at McKinsey)

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low-agency high-ambition people - people who worked hard in school, took the highest-status job they could get, worked hard on that job to get the next one, and so on... There's a no-imagination-required success ladder there. Not sure if this is accurate but the idea really resonated with me.

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A friend moved from Toronto to NYC. He said that he'd see people in NYC who did impressive things, but when he met them, they seemed boring. His theory was, in T.O, you'd have to be a remarkable person to do these things. In NYC, a lot of the people doing Big Things are just

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